Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Julie Delpy Stars: Julie Delpy, Eric Elmosnino, Emmannuelle Riva, Karin Viard, Lou Alvarez, Vincent Lacoste, Denis Menochet, Bernadette Lafont, Aure Arika, Jean-Louis Coulloch, Noeme Lvovsky, Candide Sanchez, Valerie Bonneton, Albert Delpy, Sophie Quinton, Marc Ruchmann, Michelle Goddet, Leo Michel-Freundlich, Anthony Kimmerle. Family is obviously important for writer/director and actress Julie [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Sophie Lellouche Stars: Alice Taglione, Patrick Bruel, Michael Aumont, Marie-Christine Adam, Yannick Soulier, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Marine Delterne. One of the most popular films screened at the 2012 French Film Festival was the romantic comedy Paris Manhattan, which now gets a commercial release on the arthouse circuit. The film is [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Bouli Lanners Stars: Martin Nissen, Zacharie Chasseriaud, Paul Bartel, Didier Toupy, Karim Leklou. The Giants is an enjoyable but dark and moody coming of age tale from Belgian actor turned director Bouli Lanners (Nothing To Declare, etc). Cowritten by Lanners and Elise Ancion, the film is reminiscent of Mark Twain’s [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Stephane Robelin Stars: Jane Fonda, Daniel Bruhl, Geraldine Chaplin, Pierre Richard, Claude Rich, Guy Bedos. This French comedy-drama looks at the shared house experience for a group of septuagenarians, Annie, Jean, Claude, Albert and Jeanne, who have been friends for over forty years. They decide to live together rather than [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Valerie Donzelli Cast: Valerie Donzelli, Jeremie Elkaim, Gabriel Elkaim, César Desseix, Michele Moretti, Beatrice de Stael. Despite the title, Declaration Of War is not a war movie. Rather this film, which opened the recent French Film Festival in Melbourne, is a heartfelt and deeply personal story about a young couple [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: David and Stephane Foenkinos Stars: Audrey Tatou, Francois Damiens, Bruno Todeschini, Pio Marmai. Audrey Tatou has a wonderfully gamin-like quality and coquettish presence that has charmed audiences in films like the delightful Amelie and Priceless. But there is something a little darker about her latest film, Delicacy, a slight, bittersweet [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jean-Marc Vallee Stars: Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Helene Florent, Evelyne Brochu, Marin Gerrier, Alice Dubois. Fresh from its screenings at the recent French Film Festival here in Australia, the beguiling drama Café De Flore receives a limited commercial release. Spanning two different time frames forty years apart, Café De Flore [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jean-Pierre Ameris Stars: Isabelle Carre, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alice Pol, Lorella Cravotta, Pierre Niney, Swann Arlaud, Lise Lametrie. Following its screenings at the recent French Film Festival, Jean-Pierre Ameris’s lightweight romantic comedy gets a limited commercial release. This light and frothy French romcom about two painfully shy and socially awkward people [...]
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